Adobe has released Version 32.0.0.171 of the Flash Player plugin for browsers. To download the full offline installer, use these links depending upon your browser: Internet Explorer or Firefox or Opera. Use Windows Update to update the built-in Flash Player in IE11 under Windows 8 and 10, and Edge under Windows 10. Update to the latest version of Chrome to update its built-in Flash Player.
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The potholes I referred to above are a reference to Google's use of their component updating system for the Flash player. This software updating scheme is separate and distinct from the updating mechanism used for the rest of the browser. My experience has been that Flash updates via the component system roll out much slower. Thus, vulnerable Flash software remains installed much longer than it used to. See my October 2013 blog on this Chrome browser on Windows fails to update embedded Flash player. It is not clear to me that Google always uses their component mechanism for updating Flash. Recently (Nov. 2014) Flash updates have appeared in Chrome fairly quickly.
Oct 2012: One issue with IE 10 and 11 using Windows Update to deliver Flash player updates is that Microsoft normally releases updates once a month. If Flash needs to be updated immediately, Microsoft may be reluctant to break from their schedule. In a Sept. 2012 article, Ed Bott griped that Microsoft had not updated IE10 with the latest Flash patches: Microsoft puts Windows 8 users at risk with missing Flash update. In fairness, Windows 8 had not been released at the time. Another 2012 article on this, one which did a good job putting things in perspective is Adobe confirms Windows 8 users vulnerable to active Flash exploits by Gregg Keizer in Computerworld. Nov 2014: The way this seems to have played out is that Adobe adjusted their release schedule to match that of Microsoft. On the second Tuesday of the month both companies release bug fixes. Of course, that leaves Windows users vulnerable to known flaws in the Flash player longer.
Mozilla offers a plugin checker that works with Firefox and other browsers. As a rule, I wouldn't use it. It gets automatically invoked when Firefox itself is updated and this can be a good thing, as it warns of outdated instances of the Flash player. But, bad guys create fake pages that mimic these warnings, so you can't blindly trust them. Always check at Adobe's official Flash tester page.
The self-update capability of the Flash player is poor. In terms of frequency, the best it can do is check for updates every 7 days. In terms of completeness, I believe it only reports on Flash used by web browers. That is, I don't think it warns about copies of the Adobe Reader with an old version of Flash embedded. The Adobe Reader and the Flash player browser plugin are updated in different and independant ways.
In addition, the Flash player has incorrectly warned me about outdated software. It seems to check, find an old version and then warn you the next time Windows boots up. By then, of course, the Flash player may well be up to date. And, as with Firefox's warning about the need to upgrade, this notification has also been spoofed by bad guys in an attempt to trick unwary users into installing malicious software. Bottom line: don't believe any notices about available updates to the Flash player, always check with Adobe's Flash tester page.
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